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  "tags": [
    "Black Protestants",
    "Christianity",
    "Clergy & Congregations",
    "Faiths",
    "Gender & Sexuality",
    "Home Top Story",
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  "textContent": "(RNS) — ‘Just as Christ’s work on the cross was countercultural, this service is a counternarrative,’ said Bishop LaTrelle Easterling, who leads the Baltimore-Washington and Peninsula-Delaware Episcopal Area.",
  "title": "For the first time, Black women bishops in the UMC share Good Friday pulpit"
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